self-luminous

Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Possessing in itself the property of emitting light.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Luminous of itself; possessing in itself the property of emitting light: thus, the sun, fixed stars, flames of all kinds, bodies which shine in consequence of being heated or rubbed, are self-luminous.

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Examples

It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train - a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

Vedanta states that there is a common Self or common consciousness in all, urging us to forego the sense of individuality or possession, “I-ness”, or “my-ness” and identify ourselves with a self-existent, self-luminous Essence, seeing the Self in ourselves and in all beings.